Anyway, usually these bugs are quickly fixed, yet, this one is marked as pending but not yet uploaded. So you can do by hand what APT and dpkg can't work out (as the information is missing). Or, just wait for the upload …

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Post subject: RE: dist-upgrade error Posted: 08.07.2012, 09:34

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I can confirm the problem with ceni:

If I boot up in a terminal as root (because an fsck failed) there is no initial eth0 connection. Using ceni led to the same failure as reported by apogarte. At my site it seems not to be related to the bug reported by DonKult.

However the workaround to manually create /run/network works fine.

slh

Post subject: RE: dist-upgrade error Posted: 08.07.2012, 11:15

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As part of the /run/ transition, ifupdown moved its state files to /run/. The upgrade process should work fine, but before the actual transition, there was an accidental upload to Debian, which was buggy in that regard. If you were affected by these broken packages, the 'recent' upgrades might have been confused. This should be the correct location, /etc/network/run being a symlink to /run/network

Ceni is technically not part of this problem, as it just provides a configuration frontend to ifupdown - as long as the configuration is correct, actually making (and keeping up) the network connection is ifupdown's task.

Anyway, usually these bugs are quickly fixed, yet, this one is marked as pending but not yet uploaded. So you can do by hand what APT and dpkg can't work out (as the information is missing). Or, just wait for the upload …

for the record, prp5627 method works, too, of course, but i prefer to avoid forcing dpkg to do something if there is a way to do it cleanly - even if the clean way is a bit longer. After all, these checks are there for a reason: They are a (thin) protection layer. Probably you can do it without protection and you will be fine, but once in a while no protection will result in a delivery of a new set of problems nine-months later (and just as in the talkshows on TV nobody knows anymore what they have done (with whom) nine-months before…).

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